First Thanksgiving

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VirginiaHuguenot

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Primary Sources for the 1621 "First Thanksgiving" at Plymouth, Massachusetts from the Pilgrim Hall Museum

Thanksgiving Articles from Plymoth Plantation :pilgrim:

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[Edited on 11-11-2005 by VirginiaHuguenot]
 
My wife and I are going to be exceedingly busy tomorrow making preparations for the next day where we will have 12-14 people over.

We are modeling most of what we are cooking with things that the Pilgrims would have actually had:

Turkey, bread, beans, cranberries, fruit bread, Pumpkin Pie, apple pie, and a couple of other things. All of our family coming, except my brother's family, are Roman Catholic. It will be an interesting day.

Let's make it a prayer that we all witness well to Thanking God for the many blessings He, as the Source of all blessing, has bestowed on us.

Everyone have a great day!
 
Originally posted by webmaster
My wife and I are going to be exceedingly busy tomorrow making preparations for the next day where we will have 12-14 people over.

We are modeling most of what we are cooking with things that the Pilgrims would have actually had:

Turkey, bread, beans, cranberries, fruit bread, Pumpkin Pie, apple pie, and a couple of other things. All of our family coming, except my brother's family, are Roman Catholic. It will be an interesting day.
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Sounds great, Matt!

Let's make it a prayer that we all witness well to Thanking God for the many blessings He, as the Source of all blessing, has bestowed on us.

Everyone have a great day!
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Originally posted by VirginiaHuguenot
Taking this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! God bless you and yours. :pilgrim:
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After seeing this thread, I deleted my redundant one and would just like to say :ditto:.
 
What a beautiful, snowy Thanksgiving. Driveway's shoveled, turkey's cooking (sniff...mmm), and I'm sitting here enjoying my morning coffee. Yes siree, sir.
 
Since you've raised the subject (I'm in Canada, so our Thanksgiving was a month ago), I actually have a question about Thanksgiving.

A pretty knowledgable guy at work said that the Puritans in Boston would would hold a great Thanksgiving feast every year. That really doesn't sound like them. I know they had days of Thanksgiving a few times a year (depending upon when issues came up) but those were spent in prayer with fasting. In all I've read of the Bostonian Puritans, I've never come across a Thanksgiving feast (but at the same time, I've never really been looking for it).

Have any of you heard of this?!
 
It might be helpful to read the short article Giving Thanks :the Religious Roots of Thanksgiving.

Here is the relevant portion:


The Thanksgiving we celebrate today is a combination of two very different New England traditions : the purely religious day of thankful prayer and the harvest feast. The harvest feast is still with us and so, in subtler ways, is the religious spirit.

The Sabbath, days of fasting and days of thanksgiving were the only religious holy days celebrated by the Pilgrims. A religious day of thanksgiving would be called only after the community had benefited from a single significant act of Divine Providence. The event we know as the "First Thanksgiving" was a secular harvest feast and not, as far as we know, an official religious day of thanksgiving. (NOTE: This does NOT mean that the Pilgrims did not give thanks to God; the Pilgrims were a deeply religious people and every activity in which they engaged was influenced by their deep reverence for Scripture.)
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Westminster Confession from the proof texts seems to allow feasting as a legitimate means of offering thanks to God for his bounty and providence:

V. The reading of the Scriptures with godly fear,[17] the sound preaching [18] and conscionable hearing of the Word, in obedience unto God, with understanding, faith, and reverence,[19] singing of psalms with grace in the heart;[20] as also, the due administration and worthy receiving of the sacraments instituted by Christ, are all parts of the ordinary religious worship of God:[21] beside religious oaths,[22] vows,[23] solemn fastings,[24] and thanksgivings upon special occasions,[25] which are, in their several times and seasons, to be used in an holy and religious manner.[26]

17. Luke 4:16-17; Acts 15:21; Col. 4:16; I Thess. 5:27; Rev. 1:3
18. II Tim. 4:2; Acts 5:42
19. James 1:22; Acts 10:33; Matt. 13:19; Heb. 4:2; Isa. 66:2
20. Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:19; James 5:13; I Cor. 14:15

21. Matt. 28:19; I Cor. 11:23-29; Acts 2:42
22. Deut. 6:13; Neh. 10:29; II Cor. 1:23
23. Psa. 116:14; Isa. 19:21; Eccl. 5:4-5
24. Joel 2:12; Est. 4:16; Matt. 9:15; Acts 14:23
25. Exod. 15:1-21; Psa. 107:1-43; Neh. 12:27-43; Est. 9:20-22
26. Heb. 12:28.
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Happy Thanksgiving to the folks on the Puritan Board -- may God bless you and yours! :pilgrim:

3 John 2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
 
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